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Definition of mulga apple in English: mulga applenoun Australian A large edible gall produced by the mulga, an Australian acacia tree. these honeypot ants gather nectar from the mulga apple Example sentencesExamples - The mulga apples are quite pleasant, as well.
- These latter galls are called mulga-apples and are said to be very welcome to the thirsty traveller.
- Mulga apples were added to their diet along the way.
- Leaving the neighbourhood of Lake Kumarina, they travelled farther north, gathering the mulga apples by the way.
- The mulga bears a small woody fruit called the mulga apple.
- Another important food provided by the mulga tree in the cooler months is the mulga apple.
- If the desert people lose their language, who will know its special word for the white powder that forms on the mulga apple?
- Little is recorded about mulga apples beyond the fact that they have a sweet taste and that both the gall itself, and the wasp larva in its centre, are eaten.
- The sweet material, afterwards made into honey by the ants, may be derived from the mulga apple.
- In the season, he eats the native peach and the mulga apple, two of the fruits indigenous to this part of the world.
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